========================================================================= Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:20:16 +0100 Reply-To: James Lee Sender: Enrichment - Restitution & Unjust Enrichment Legal Issues From: James Lee Subject: Illegality and Repentance MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C81701.66C999A6" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C81701.66C999A6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear All, =20 Members may be interested in a relatively short recent case from the English Court of Appeal: Kohn v Wagschal & Ors [2007] EWCA Civ 1022 - http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2007/1022.html, which raises an interesting, if obiter, point regarding the scope of the locus poenitentiae rule. =20 Best wishes, =20 James Lee =20 =20 -- James Lee Teaching Fellow School of Law University of Reading Foxhill House, rm. 2.09 Whiteknights Road, Earley Reading RG6 7BA United Kingdom =20 Phone: +44 (0) 118 378 5643 Fax: +44 (0) 118 378 4543 Email: j.s.lee@reading.ac.uk Web: www.reading.ac.uk/law =20 =20 ____________________________________________________________________ This message was delivered through the Restitution Discussion Group, an international internet LISTSERV devoted to all aspects of the law of unjust enrichment. To subscribe, send "subscribe enrichment" in the body of a message to . To unsubscribe, send "signoff enrichment" to the same address. To make a posting to all group members, send to . The list is run by Lionel Smith of McGill University, . ------_=_NextPart_001_01C81701.66C999A6 Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Dear All,

Members may be interested in a relatively short = recent case from the English Court of Appeal: Kohn v = Wagschal & Ors [2007] EWCA Civ 1022 - http://ww= w.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2007/1022.html, which raises an interesting, if obiter, point regarding the scope of the = locus = poenitentiae rule.

Best wishes,

James Lee

Teaching Fellow

School of Law

University of Reading

Foxhill House, rm. 2.09

Whiteknights Road, Earley

Reading RG6 7BA

United Kingdom

Phone: +44 (0) 118 378 5643

Fax: +44 (0) 118 378 4543

Email: j.s.lee@reading.ac.uk

Web: www.reading.ac.uk/law

____________________________________________________________________ This message was delivered through the Restitution Discussion Group, an international internet LISTSERV devoted to all aspects of the law of unjust enrichment. To subscribe, send "subscribe enrichment" in the body of a message to <listserv@lists.mcgill.ca>. To unsubscribe, send "signoff enrichment" to the same address. To make a posting to all group members, send to <enrichment@lists.mcgill.ca>. The list is run by Lionel Smith of McGill University, <lionel.smith@mcgill.ca>. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C81701.66C999A6-- ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 21:56:16 +0100 Reply-To: Gerhard Dannemann Sender: Enrichment - Restitution & Unjust Enrichment Legal Issues From: Gerhard Dannemann Subject: The underrated undergraduate subject MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Is this a well kept secret, or am I the only one who has until today=20 missed out on the fact that the Law Society and the Bar Council require=20 all undergraduates to have been taught restitution? At least this is=20 what their Joint Statement tells us: See:=20 http://www.lawsociety.org.uk/documents/downloads/becomingacademicjointsta= te.pdf=20 (p. 5) "Obligations including Contract, Restitution and Tort" is commonly=20 "translated" in to "Obligations I: Contract" and "Obligations II: Tort",=20 with restitution being dropped in the process. Funny enough, outside their joint declaration, even Bar Council and Law=20 Society subscribe to this view: http://www.barstandardsboard.org.uk/qualifyingforthebar/whatistheacademic= stage/ http://www.lawsociety.org.uk/becomingasolicitor/waystoqualify/qualifying.= law#foundations.=20 Can anyone illuminate me on the story behind this? Best regards, Gerhard Dannemann --=20 Prof. Dr. Gerhard Dannemann Centre for British Studies Humboldt-Universit=E4t zu Berlin J=E4gerstr. 10-11 10117 Berlin Tel. +49 30 2093 5334 Fax +49 30 2093 5370 http://www2.hu-berlin.de/gbz ____________________________________________________________________ This message was delivered through the Restitution Discussion Group, an international internet LISTSERV devoted to all aspects of the law of unjust enrichment. To subscribe, send "subscribe enrichment" in the body of a message to . To unsubscribe, send "signoff enrichment" to the same address. To make a posting to all group members, send to . The list is run by Lionel Smith of McGill University, .